Big Four Auditors Losing Clients

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Losing a limb doesn't mean losing your
job (USATODAY.com)

Losing a limb doesn't mean losing your
job (USATODAY.com) 05/05/2004 06:49 AM
USATODAY.com - Army Capt. David Rozelle loosens his belt buckle, the one his commander gave him on the eve of the Iraq war, to reveal a 16-word inscription: "Brave Rifles! Veterans!You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel."

Losing a PC is worse, than losing an
heirloom for most!

Losing a PC is worse, than losing an
heirloom for most! 09/13/2004 08:56 AM
KeralaNext.com Sep 13 2004 1:24PM GMT

Auditors take stock of NHS IT spend

Auditors take stock of NHS IT spend 08/31/2004 06:02 AM
Is it value for money?

Italy's Parmalat sues ex-auditors

Italy's Parmalat sues ex-auditors 08/18/2004 12:41 PM
Parmalat issues proceedings against its ex-auditors over their dealings with the insolvent group before its near collapse

SPI Dynamics tools aid security auditors

SPI Dynamics tools aid security auditors 11/10/2003 11:20 PM

Auditors Find IRS Workers Prone to
Hackers (AP)

Auditors Find IRS Workers Prone to
Hackers (AP) 03/17/2005 03:30 AM
AP - More than one-third of Internal Revenue Service employees and managers who were contacted by Treasury Department inspectors posing as computer technicians provided their computer login and changed their password, a government report said Wednesday.

Government auditors slam IRS for IT
security risks

Government auditors slam IRS for IT
security risks 07/23/2004 04:34 PM
A pair of reports written by auditors within the Treasury Department found that systems at the Internal Revenue Service face significant security threats because of "numerous security violations" by IT contractors and unauthorized use of handheld devices.

Report: Pentagon Auditors Altered Files
(AP)

Report: Pentagon Auditors Altered Files
(AP) 01/10/2004 01:03 PM
AP - Pentagon auditors spent 1,139 hours altering their own files in order to pass an internal review, say investigators who found that the accounting sleuths engaged in just the kind of wasteful activity they are supposed to expose.

Pentagon Auditors Set to Clear
Halliburton (Reuters)

Pentagon Auditors Set to Clear
Halliburton (Reuters) 01/07/2004 06:23 PM
Reuters - Pentagon auditors said on Wednesday they expected soon to receive documents from the Army that Halliburton paid fair prices for fuel brought into Iraq, squashing price-gouging allegations against Vice President Dick Cheney's former company.

Auditors working on cyber-risk standard

Auditors working on cyber-risk standard 04/14/2004 07:39 AM

IRS Auditors Call for Constraints on
Contractors' Computer Access

IRS Auditors Call for Constraints on
Contractors' Computer Access 07/27/2004 09:32 AM
eWeek Jul 27 2004 1:58PM GMT

Auditors warn of foreign risks to
weapons software

Auditors warn of foreign risks to
weapons software 05/27/2004 09:07 AM

Netopia auditors quit as company faces
restatement

Netopia auditors quit as company faces
restatement 09/17/2004 08:21 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 17 2004 12:59PM GMT

Halliburton Tells Military Auditors It
Saved Money

Halliburton Tells Military Auditors It
Saved Money 12/18/2003 07:24 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 18 2003 7:13PM ET

IT involvement in Sarbanes-Oxley
projects lacking, auditors say

IT involvement in Sarbanes-Oxley
projects lacking, auditors say 06/24/2004 04:44 PM
Day-to-day operational requirements and an unfamiliarity with auditing and control procedures leave many IT departments reluctant to take part in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts, said attendees at a conference focused on the financial reporting law.

Losing the War

Losing the War 12/28/2004 05:28 PM
Losing the War, an insightful memoir by writer and journalist Lee Sandlin. Note: It's not about Iraq. Or is it? "A year later, in the second winter of the invasion, as the army inched forward on a final, desperate push into Stalingrad, a daring joke began making the rounds in Germany, a mock dispatch from Stalingrad HQ: 'Today our troops captured a two-room apartment with kitchen, toilet, and bathroom. They have succeeded in retaining two-thirds of it despite fierce counterattacks by the enemy.' Few of the tellers realized just how accurate this description was. Jo hn Keegan, in his book The Second World War, quotes a German officer's description of the fighting in the city: 'We have fought for fifteen days for a single house with mortars, grenades, machine-guns and bayonets. Already by the third day fifty-four German corpses are strewn in the cellars, on the landings, and the staircases. The front is a corridor between burnt-out rooms; it is the thin ceiling between two floors.' This was where Hitler's vision of the world finally foundered. After striding like a colossus over a continent, the German army was in the end unable to force its way up a flight of stairs."

Losing It

Losing It 05/19/2004 04:38 AM

I think I may be losing it.  I wrote two posts today but trashed them both because I didn't want to bother with the backlash.  Fear is something I have a good handle on, but not the lazyness.  In one of the two posts, I pissed liberally on good people like Dave, Joi, Tim O'Reilly and companies like Microsoft, Google, Six Apart, and O'Reilly.  The other post was about why I may be a racist.  Saucy topics indeed, but my lazyness got the better of me.  I hope I get better soon.

Losing the evangelicals?

Losing the evangelicals? 05/18/2004 02:50 PM

The Art of Losing a Fight

The Art of Losing a Fight 02/01/2005 08:50 PM
via zanphura (Alternatively titled, So You're Not Strictly Speaking, Um, The Winner.) You've tried. You've thrown your back into it. You tasted victory if only for the briefest of moments and despite your failure the smell of success lingers like a coy ghost. But it's over. You join the hallowed halls of the non-victors where history is yours to read, not write. Cong ...

Why We Are Losing The War on Terrorism

Why We Are Losing The War on Terrorism 05/03/2004 10:45 AM
CACI, a private military company that provides security and intelligence workers to the US military (including interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison), is conducting a probe of their employee in Iraq.  I had a look at CACIs site and was a little disturbed by what I found (they have pulled many of their listings for employment last night -- so I can't link).  The only qualifications for a senior counter-terrorist intelligence analyst, one that the US military pays well over one hundred thousand $$ for (my estimate based on experience in military contacting), is a high school diploma and a security clearance.Is a security clearance the most important qualification for being an analyst??? This isn't an isolated instance, my review of the field shows that problems like this are rampant (low pay, limited qualifications, etc.).

Fighting terrorism is 90% intelligence and 10% action (a total reversal of traditional ratios).  If this is the best our government can do, we are in for a world of hurt.

We desperately need adult supervision and high quality minds in the intelligence business!  I am growing more convince that the security clearance process, the government hiring/promotion process, and information silos are overwhelming our ability to get even a marginally adequate level of intelligence needed to fight terrorism.  Wow, this is depressing.

My confident belief (100%):  we will continue to lose the war on terrorism until we fix our intelligence system.

Losing place

Losing place 11/18/2003 02:30 AM
Thoughtful essay by Paul Goldberger (the New Yorker's architecture critic) in Metropolis magazine about how cellphones are uprooting and altering how we connect to the world around us:But the cell phone has changed our sense of place more than faxes and computers and e-mail because of its ability to intrude into every moment in every possible place. When you walk along the street and talk on a cell phone, you are not on the street sharing the communal experience of urban life. You are in some other place--someplace at the other end of your phone conversation. You are there, but you are not there. It reminds me of the title of Lillian Ross's memoir of her life with William Shawn, Here But Not Here. Now that is increasingly true of almost every person on almost every street in almost every city. You are either on the phone or carrying one,...

Losing a Niche

Losing a Niche 06/17/2005 07:16 PM

Popular Science magazine gives us the following five things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with RSS:

1. “Package Deliveries
2. Library Books
   “ Avoid late fees and fruitless trips to the library with ELF (libraryelf.com), which generates a feed to inform you when books you've requested are available at your local branch (including a link to operating hours) and when your checked-out books are almost due.”
3. Local Weather
4. TV Listings
5. Yourself” [via del.icio.us/merlinmann/ 43folders]

I love the ELF and even subscribe to the service myself, but how does it make your privacy-loving, patron-protecting, librarian self feel that a company in Canada is providing this service that gets highlighted in PopSci instead of you?

US Losing its Scientific Dominance

US Losing its Scientific Dominance 05/03/2004 08:10 AM

Losing the Shell Game

Losing the Shell Game 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
Whoops, looks like Shell miscounted.

Losing sleep over terrorism?

Losing sleep over terrorism? 08/19/2004 11:08 PM
Quantum Sleeper ... If I blow $100,000+ on a bed, Sandra Bullock better be in it.

IBM: PC Unit Has Been Losing Money

IBM: PC Unit Has Been Losing Money 12/31/2004 12:32 PM
Forbes Dec 31 2004 5:14PM GMT

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 5/4

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 5/4 05/04/2004 02:33 AM
from the NYT (reg/req) .. Today

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NASA losing the thread?

NASA losing the thread? 09/24/2004 05:16 AM
USA Today Sep 24 2004 9:11AM GMT

Losing a Few Pounds May Help the Obese
(AP)

Losing a Few Pounds May Help the Obese
(AP) 05/30/2004 05:40 PM
AP - For the obese, a small loss may be a big victory. Evidence is building that really heavy people may be able to greatly improve their odds of dodging weight-related illnesses while remaining very heavy.

Google Losing IT's Cool?

Google Losing IT's Cool? 05/29/2004 07:43 PM
ISEDB May 30 2004 0:33AM GMT

The Art Of Losing Friends
(washingtonpost.com)

The Art Of Losing Friends
(washingtonpost.com) 09/25/2004 03:59 AM

Microsoft's IE losing users

Microsoft's IE losing users 09/17/2004 02:31 AM
iTnews Sep 17 2004 6:58AM GMT

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 05/02/2004 11:55 PM
Foreign advances in basic science now often rival or even exceed America's.

3G Phones Are Losing Weight

3G Phones Are Losing Weight 09/09/2004 09:48 PM
The Feature Sep 10 2004 1:41AM GMT

Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve?

Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve? 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Biotechnology companies appear to be taking fewer chances lately, raising concerns that there will be fewer breakthrough drugs in the future.

Is Pepsi Losing Fizz?

Is Pepsi Losing Fizz? 07/16/2004 01:48 PM
Second-quarter earnings reveal snacks under attack.

"fear they may be losing the battle"

"fear they may be losing the battle" 04/15/2005 03:43 PM

UK losing more hours to commuting

UK losing more hours to commuting 06/08/2004 01:11 AM
A survey by recruitment firm Reed says it is harder to get to work now than two years ago, with lateness costing the UK economy £7.7bn a year.

How to win hearts and minds by losing.

How to win hearts and minds by losing. 07/16/2004 01:34 PM
Failure is not an option, it's mandatory. "For more than three decades, the Republican Party has relied on the "culture war" to rescue their chances every four years, from Richard Nixon's campaign against the liberal news media to George H. W. Bush's campaign against the liberal flag-burners. In this culture war, the real divide is between "regular people" and an endlessly scheming "liberal elite." This strategy allows them to depict themselves as friends of the common people even as they gut workplace safety rules and lay plans to turn Social Security over to Wall Street. Most important, it has allowed Republicans to speak the language of populism."

An opinion about how the surety of losing wins votes for the Republican party.
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